Fixing the 16 shaft treadles and trip to a small weavery

Weaver's log, Earthdate 20012020
Started to fix the problem and move the strings on the last shaft to the left where they should be, but as this loom works with a different system where each string has a ring at the bottom and that is threaded on a rod, and that rood only have one nut on it and it's of cores on the opposite end of the 16th shaft I hade to pull out all the rings to get to it.

On a positive note, I did not have to remove all the strings as the ones on the top lamm could stay in place. It was hard to get the rings to be in the right place after each other and to know what shaft and tredel I was pulling, so I marked the lamm with numbers.

This helped somewhat I also started to tie up each partition on the rood,

if you look closely on the treadles, there are loops that the rood goes throw and in each part, there should be four rings.

Then I was done I warped and parted the heddles evenly to each side as we will put the warp in through them.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 21012020
I Pre-sleyd and got the reed centred in today, will be some time until I get further with the weave, as this week is a class week, so will have classes the rest of the week.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 22012020
We started with art class today, after just playing with different kinds of colour we got to choose from two assignments. One was to tape in sections and after painting, tape more and colour them again to see how the layers work.

The other was to take an envelope with pieces ripped out of magazines and we were to glue them down and then try to blend colours so it matches with the cutouts. I chose to do the later one but only got to start, then the class was over. After lunch, we attended a lecture from Dellenkilt a company that sell kilts and other things with a tartan that was made for my home county Hälsingland. It was a very nice lecture with nice pictures and short videos. The rest of the day was like most class days, we share samples and discuss those. After dinner, however, we took a trip to a weavery that is located in my neighbouring village. Even though it's so close to it it was the first time I went there, it was cool to see what kind of things they weave there as I never really known what before.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 23012020
Some weaving theory at the start of the day then we went over to Holma Hälsinglands

factory shop, and I got some yarns for picture weaving, I miss doing that. After lunch, we hade a class in weave point. We mostly did basic stuff that I already know today but it was kinda fun anyway.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 24012020
Last day with the class for this time, we talked about what we did, some weaving theory and we ended the day with more Weave point. On this Weave point class, we did more advanced things and I was so amazed by all the things you can do with this software. It took me 7 klicks I believe to make a motif and then let the program give me a working draft. The last 15 minutes or so we got to just play around and I created a few drafts and a weave that needed 41 shafts, don't think that will be done even by me with my crazy ides.